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Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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jk2323 wrote: post #203
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #177

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Why don't you find some real and credible sources, instead of random Google hits. You can find support for absolutely anything on the internet, but that does not make it objectively true. Your whole shtick of calling the sitting government a "junta" and calling Merkel a stasi agent (with absolutely no credible proof to show for it). I don't even particularly like Merkel, although I will admit she is a very talented p…

"with absolutely no credible proof to show for it" You know who this is? https://antilobby.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/merkel_im.jpg?... This is former Stasi agent and current chancellor of Germany in front of the house of former dissident Havelman in East Berlin. Merkel herself forbid the publication of this picture due to "privacy rights". Please not that YOU CAN ONLY HAVE RIGHTS ON YOUR OWN PICTURE! Another dubiou…

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Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by jk2323 »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #208
jk2323 wrote: post #203

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"with absolutely no credible proof to show for it" You know who this is? https://antilobby.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/merkel_im.jpg?... This is former Stasi agent and current chancellor of Germany in front of the house of former dissident Havelman in East Berlin. Merkel herself forbid the publication of this picture due to "privacy rights". Please not that YOU CAN ONLY HAVE RIGHTS ON YOUR OWN PICTURE! Another dubiou…

It's a picture of a woman. How do you know it's Merkel? How do you know it's even a Stasi agent? Where is your credible proof? This is all idle speculation.

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Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by jk2323 »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #207
jk2323 wrote: post #199

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That is an extremely odd and disturbing bizarro world you seem to live in.

Which statement do you doubt? I will search a FOCUS or SPIEGEL link for you. Maybe it is your world, that is clouded.

That Merkel's open borders are a crime based on German law. If you are able to read German, take this as a start: https://alexanderdilger.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/drei-ex-ver...

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

jk2323 wrote: post #213
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is an extremely odd and disturbing bizarro world you seem to live in.

Which statement do you doubt? I will search a FOCUS or SPIEGEL link for you. Maybe it is your world, that is clouded. That Merkel's open borders are a crime based on German law. If you are able to read German, take this as a start: https://alexanderdilger.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/drei-ex-ver...

I don't trust random blogs.

The only thing that is abundantly clear is that you have a clear agenda, and you will believe anything that appears to support your prejudices.

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

jk2323 wrote: post #212
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a picture of a woman. How do you know it's Merkel? How do you know it's even a Stasi agent? Where is your credible proof? This is all idle speculation.

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You don't have any proof. All you have are a collection of random pieces of supposed "evidence", and you're making significant leaps to desperately connect them.

This, and the fact that you insist on calling Merkel left wing, despite proof to the contrary, only supports the conclusion that you are completely off your rocker.

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by jk2323 »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #214
jk2323 wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which statement do you doubt? I will search a FOCUS or SPIEGEL link for you. Maybe it is your world, that is clouded. That Merkel's open borders are a crime based on German law. If you are able to read German, take this as a start: https://alexanderdilger.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/drei-ex-ver...

I don't trust random blogs. The only thing that is abundantly clear is that you have a clear agenda, and you will believe anything that appears to support your prejudices.

No, it is you that has the clear agenda. You don't accept anything else than your own view of the world.

> I don't trust random blogs.

The blog has 4 links, it basically quotes only from these four links. That are:

1. Welt.de (major German Newspaper)

2. Focus.de (major German magazine)

3. Welt.de again

4. New York Times.

If these sources are "not credible" for you, we have indeed no way of communicating.

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Post by smcl »

DocTomoe wrote: post #112
smcl wrote: post #109

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I’ve seen people (fellow foreigners) wearing hammer and sickle on tshirts in czech and it didn’t seem to cause any trouble. I’m sure people quietly thought “what an idiot” but nobody actually did anything. Weirdly a friend of a friend who was a member of the local football ultras threatened to kick the shit out of a someone who was wearing that iconic Che-Guevara-face t-shirt ... but nothing happened (and that’s prob…

In all fairness, you need to be a particular brand of idiot to show communist glorification on your clothing in the country that was subject to the violent break of the liberalization that we now know as Prague Spring. Anyone who has read anything about Czechia knows about that. I would expect czech police there to be more "nah, above my paygrade" when it comes to foreigners than German customs officers.

Oh I don't disagree - when wearing this sorta stuff you're at best ignorant and at worst trying to be provocative (god knows why you'd want to). The cases I saw were mostly the dumb Threadless "Communist Party" t-shirt which is definitely in the latter camp.

And you're right, the police would likely just roll their eyes and move on. I think anything nazi-related is taken much more seriously in Germany than anything socialist/communist related is here (there's even still an actual communist party which iirc gets regular single-digit share of electoral votes).

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by dang »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #207
jk2323 wrote: post #199

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That is an extremely odd and disturbing bizarro world you seem to live in.

Nonetheless it is not ok for you to cross into personal attack, either. You've also broken the site guidelines in a second way: by replying, instead of just flagging, you kept this flamewar going.

It would be good to (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when posting here. I know it's hard when someone else is violating them, but it's necessary.

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by dang »

jk2323 wrote: post #216
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't trust random blogs. The only thing that is abundantly clear is that you have a clear agenda, and you will believe anything that appears to support your prejudices.

No, it is you that has the clear agenda. You don't accept anything else than your own view of the world. > I don't trust random blogs. The blog has 4 links, it basically quotes only from these four links. That are: 1. Welt.de (major German Newspaper) 2. Focus.de (major German magazine) 3. Welt.de again 4. New York Times. If these sources are "not credible" for you, we have indeed no way of communicating.

You've abused HN badly in this thread by taking it into the worst kind of political/ideological flamewar. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

dang wrote: post #218
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is an extremely odd and disturbing bizarro world you seem to live in.

Nonetheless it is not ok for you to cross into personal attack, either. You've also broken the site guidelines in a second way: by replying, instead of just flagging, you kept this flamewar going. It would be good to (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when posting here. I know it's hard when someone else is violating them, but it's necessary.

It wasn't clear to me where it veered off the tracks, I'm not a mind reader.
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